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Daniel Erasmus

Founder of Digital Thinking Network

Daniel Erasmus has been facilitating scenario processes for diverse clients across three continents since 1996. As a founder and director of the DTN (Digital Thinking Network), Daniel leads a consulting firm that specializes in scenario thinking and transformation processes, and licenses early warning systems to organizations interested in looking ahead. With an international staff of members and associates, Daniel has worked with a range of private and public sector clients that include Nokia, Rabobank, the city Rotterdam , the Rijksgebouwendienst, Schlumberger, Sanoma, Telenor, Vodafone. Daniel is CEO of NewsConsole, which provides it clients insight into today and tomorrow’s news. It is a big data, web-scale predictive analytics platform that is capable of analyzing all the news in the world and presenting the results in custom reports and mobile applications. Daniel also is a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School and a fellow at The Rotterdam School of Management. As a lecturer he has taught scenario thinking to almost than a 2000 executives and post graduate MBA students at companies and business schools from Helsinki to Cape Town, and from Paris to Seoul.

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